The Christian almanack, For the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 1824 : being Bissextile, or Leap Year, and the Forty-eighth of the Independence of the United States

by: Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870, ill; Gilbert, Reuben S., egr; Olbers, W. (Wilhelm), 1758-1840; American Tract Society; Philadelphia Sunday and Adult School Union

Publication date: 1823

Topics: Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821, Charities, Religious newspapers and periodicals, Agriculture, Courts, Eclipses, Wood-engraving, Seasons in art, Conduct of life, Charities, Almanacs, American

Publisher: Philadelphia : Published by the American Tract Society, and the Philadelphia Sunday and Adult School Union. For Sale at 29 North Fourth Street,[1823]

Collection: university_pittsburgh; americana

Digitizing sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

Contributor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

Language: English

Re-printed by John Andrews, Pittsburgh

At head of title: No. IV.-Vol. I

Signature: A² B-D E (-E6)

Caption title on p. [17]: Farmer's Calendar

Title vignette signed "Gilbert" (Reuben S. Gilbert)

Seasonal cuts on the calendar pages signed "G": these are re-engraved after Anderson's sequence (cf. Johnson & Warner's almanac, for the year ... 1814, et al.)

Includes: Eclipses for 1824; agricultural notes; Influence of the moon / by Dr. Olbers; table of bible societies, benevolent societies, missionary societies, sabbath school societies, common school societies, institutions for Africans and institutions for the deaf and dumb; a list of religious periodicals published in the U.S.; moral dialogues and anecdotes; abstract of the will of Hon. Elias Boudinot; a list of the courts in Philadelphia

Drake, M. Almanacs

Shoemaker

Notes

Front cover also serves as title page and last page also serves as back cover. Some tight margins.

Addeddate: 2010-03-09 17:15:50

Associated-names: Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870, ill; Gilbert, Reuben S., egr; Olbers, W. (Wilhelm), 1758-1840; American Tract Society; Philadelphia Sunday and Adult School Union